Category Archives: Africa Tech

George Airport, in George, South Africa, has become the first airport facility in Africa to be entirely energized by solar power. In an article for The Independent, Gabriel Samuels explains how the project to run George Airport entirely off of solar power required the installment of 2,000 solar panels to produce 7050 KW daily.…

Boosting agricultural production could be the key to adding jobs and profitability for the billions of people who live below the Sahara Desert. In response to this challenge, Japan is investing more than $30-billion toward production of rice and other crops and developing technology in hopes of transforming the population into a thriving rural…

Mark Zuckerberg was set to provide millions of people with free internet access in Africa. Internet.org was poised to help those without internet service finally connect to the world. The project, aimed at working to “connect two-thirds of the world that don’t have internet access,” offers a platform for businesses and internet providers to join…

Namola is an integrated phone app that alerts South African police of crime activity via mounted smart phones. South Africa has attempted to implement several crime-fighting apps over recent years, including apps like OurHood and Spottm. But Namola is the first of its kind to directly integrate with police authorities, making it a real-time dispatch…

Rwanda is not the only African nation that is benefiting from drone technology to improve access to medical care for remote populations. Malawi and South Africa are also seeing positive results from drone delivery systems. MALAWI Malawi, another landlocked nation, is one of the continent’s least-developed countries. Residents have a low…

Did you know that Africans suffer the worst health in the world? This is the heart-wrenching advisement of the World Health Organization in its September 2016 Bulletin. Poverty and poor access jeopardize the safety and well-being of Africans. Despite support from the international community, progress in healthcare is painfully slow. However, drones are making a…

Electricity Coming to 1 million Rural Tanzanian Households Tanzania is taking a major step towards industrialization with a large development project that aims to provide electricity to rural households not yet connected to a grid. The short-term goal of the program, which is being overseen by the Tanzanian Rural Energy Agency (REA), is to power…

M-Kopa Brings Solar-Powered TVs to Rural Kenya Several thousand rural Kenyans living off the grid are now welcoming solar-powered televisions into their homes. And if M-Kopa founder and CEO Jesse Moore’s vision of the future comes to pass, several million more people living in rural parts of Africa will be doing the same thing. As…

Technology has certainly had major impacts on our social and economic lives, but what about using that same technology to work towards a better environment? That is exactly what the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, are doing in their most recent joint adventure, SERVIR. SERVIR’s goal…

The idea of a reclusive young male with bad acne, poor social skills, and an awkward taste in attire sitting behind an array of computer screens coding the world as we know, it is not exactly how the world of IT and coding is setup in today’s society. In fact, there is an emerging…